Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, President Obama welcomed a civil rights icon, placed a call to the international space station, made an important personnel announcement and hosted a roundtable focused on education with business leaders. But throughout he remained focused on finding a […]
Join @ONECampaign and @WhiteHouse for a Twitter interview on development and aid on Friday, July 22nd at 11:30 AM EDT. Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Development and Democracy for the National Security Staff, is taking your questions on topics ranging from the White House’s GAVI vaccines pledge to the […]
This morning, First Lady Michelle Obama was at the Naval Air Station Oceana Aerotheater in Virginia Beach, Virginia with military families for a screening of Warner Brothers’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two. The screening is part of the Joining Forces Movie Series, where some of our country’s biggest movie studios are offering special […]
Editor’s Note: This blog post is cross-posted from the FastLane, the official blog of the Department of Transportation Tomorrow night, the FAA reauthorization bill is set to expire. And without swift action from Congress to pass an extension, the Federal Aviation Administration will be unable to move forward on important airport construction projects and thousands […]
Click here to see the video. Today, First Lady Michelle Obama announced nationwide commitments from major food retailers to open or expand over 1,500 stores to help provide healthy, affordable food to millions of people in areas that do not currently have easy access to fresh, nutritious food. Across the country, 23.5 million Americans – […]
Cross-posted with The GSA Blog Last week I saw firsthand two groundbreaking clean energy projects – the Midwest’s largest rooftop solar panel array at GSA’s Major General Emmett J. Bean Federal Center in Indianapolis and the country’s largest geothermal project at Ball State University. These two Indiana projects are creating jobs that will form the […]
Just as our cell phones and computers have gotten progressively more efficient over the past decade, so too have data servers. However, the government has not taken advantage of the increasing efficiency of data storage. Rather than follow the private sector’s lead of shrinking the size and number of the facilities used to house the […]
Click here to see the video. Over the weekend, President Obama continued to urge both parties to come together around a balanced package to deficit reduction. Today, the President provided an update on the efforts to lift the debt ceiling and also tackle the underlying challenges we face with our national debt and deficits: Some progress was made in some of the discussions, some […]
Cross-posted with Ed.gov Blog James Henderson, 12, holds up a letter from President Barack Obama. Henderson wrote to the President in May about cuts to education. It’s no secret that schools around the country are facing deep budget cuts, often resulting in layoffs of staff and teachers and putting the burden on teachers to purchase […]
In the single largest round of awards in the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund’s history, Treasury will distribute a total of $142,302,667 to 155 financial institutions serving economically distressed communities across the United States. CDFI Fund Director Donna Gambrell joined Senator Dick Durbin and Representative Danny Davis in Chicago yesterday to make the historic […]
